We’ve heard no shortage of claims about how Donald Trump is a racist and a misogynist, about how he exhibits all the self-control of a toddler, all the self-awareness of an alsatian puppy, and that his narcissistic personality disorder threatens world peace and the global climate. But might there be positive things in the example that he sets for business? I ask not because I am warming to the guy, or disagree with my former colleague Andrew Hill, who argued in the Financial Times this week that Mr Trump’s “late 1990s” leadership style of “the older, white, male chief executive in suit and tie, peddling platitudes from a podium” is “dire”. I ask because Boris Johnson has declared that it is time to stop the…

Source: The Times November 17, 2016 17:03 UTC